Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and FunctionCriticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and language are seen as interrelated that the structure of Shakespeare's dramatic art emerges as fully functional, that is, as part of a larger, and not only literary, whole.' |
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... ritual died out or became fossilized , the imitation of reality became deliberate and effective , thus transforming the function and structure of mimic actions . In ecstatic or magic ritual , the ... RITUAL AND MIMESIS 5 Ritual and Mimesis.
... ritual died out or became fossilized , the imitation of reality became deliberate and effective , thus transforming the function and structure of mimic actions . In ecstatic or magic ritual , the ... RITUAL AND MIMESIS 5 Ritual and Mimesis.
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... ritual action . Although the gradual separation of performer and “ audience " increased the need to interpret cultic action in terms of representational forms , basic ele- ments of a ritual action persisted , albeit in submerged ways ...
... ritual action . Although the gradual separation of performer and “ audience " increased the need to interpret cultic action in terms of representational forms , basic ele- ments of a ritual action persisted , albeit in submerged ways ...
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... ritual form inherited from the Mass and the liturgy " ( p . 288 ) through the morality play down to Shakespeare's histories and tragedies . Apart from the fact that such emphasis on " the continuity of ritual form " ( p . 291 ) -more ...
... ritual form inherited from the Mass and the liturgy " ( p . 288 ) through the morality play down to Shakespeare's histories and tragedies . Apart from the fact that such emphasis on " the continuity of ritual form " ( p . 291 ) -more ...
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